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1025057
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b779427
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Yao, Steven G.,1965-
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Foreign accents : : Chinese American verse from exclusion to postethnicity /\ Steven G. Yao.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010.
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| Series Statement
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Global Asias
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vii, 326 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0199730334
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: 9780199730339
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-317).
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| Contents
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To be (or not to be) the poet : the cultural politics of verse in Asian American literature -- Toward a prehistory of Asian American verse : Pound, Cathay, and the poetics of Chineseness -- Chinese/American verse in transnational perspective : racial protest and the poems of Angel Island -- From the language of race to the poetics of ethnicity : the rise of Asian American verse -- A voice from China : Ha Jin and the cultural politics of antisocialist realism -- The precision of persimmons : Li-Young Lee, ethnic identity and the limits of lyric testimony -- Are you hate speech or are you a lullaby? : Marilyn Chin and the politics of form in Chinese/American verse -- The owner of one pock-marked tongue : John Yau and the logic of ethnic abstraction -- Chinese/American verse in the age of postethnicity?
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Foreign Accents examins the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, in Chinese as well as in English. In assessing the dynamics and the politics of poetic expression by writers engaging with a specific cultural heritage, the study develops a general theory of ethnic literary production that clarifies the significance of "Asian American" literature in relation to both other forms of U.S. "minority discourse," as well as canonical "American" literature more generally. At the same time, it maps an expanded textual arena and a new methodology for Asian American literary studies that can be further explored by scholars of other traditions.
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Yao discusses a range of works, including Ezra Pound's Cathay and the Angel Island poems. He examines the careers of four contemporary Chinese/American poets: Ha Jin, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, and John Yau, each of whom bears a distinctive relationship to the linguistic and cultural tradition he or she seeks to represent. Specifically, Yao investigates the range of rhetorical and formal strategies by which these writers have sought to incorporate Chinese culture and, especially, language in their works. Combining such analysis with extensive social contextualization, Foreign Accents delineates a historical poetics of Chinese American verse from the early twentieth century to the present. --Book Jacket.
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American poetry-- Chinese American authors-- History and criticism.
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American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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American poetry-- Chinese American authors-- History and criticism.
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American poetry-- Chinese American authors.
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American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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American poetry.
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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Chinesen
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Kulturelle Identität
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Lyrik
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Sprache
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USA
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.5098951073
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PS153.C45Y36 2010
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